Tutorial four and five: Video Production Sessions

So this our video..produced by Gemma, Claire, Godhelp, Cara and myself.  Our task was to choose a letter from the alphabet and video/take photos of things that actually started with that letter or things that represented that letter...can you guess what the letter is?..we sort of gave it away a bit!!

We used Windows Moviemaker to produce the film.  This entailed downloading our clips and photos onto the software and then dragging them into a storyboard.  We used tools for clipping film and special effects, and added a soundtrack to pull the whole thing together.  Enjoy! 

Youtube is one way of showing your videos or movies to the world.  It is a "popular video hosting and sharing service that was purchased by Google in 2006," and their service "lets users view and upload video files" (Karch, n.d., para 1).  In addition to viewing and uploading videos "the service lets users rate videos, add comments, and subscribe to their favourite producers" (Karch, para 1).

Video clips allow us to learn about new information and give us a visual that helps our understanding.  My first fieldwork placement was in an acute mental health environment.  The following five video clips (all of which I found on YouTube) are specifically about mental health.  They all present facts about mental health in different ways - some factual, some emotive...

(O'Neill, 2006)

This video provides facts about depression.  It is emotive through the use of pictures and the soundtrack.

(World Health Organisation, 2009)

This video has been produced by the World Health Organisation and its content is much more focussed on educating people about what mental illness is and how where you live in the world affects treatment.

(Ttcnow, 2009)

This video was produced by Comic Relief which is a British charity.  The video presents people with mental health conditions and the stigma and discrimination they have faced.

(Emrephalanx, 2009)

 

 I guess this is a tongue in cheek way of describing some mental health conditions...I certainly don't find it offensive and for some it will (in an extremely basic way) describe what certain mental health conditions are about.  It is certainly very popular on YouTube with nearly 238,000 views.

(CBS, 2007)

This is a very quick excerpt from an American news show talking about Children's mental health awareness day and how we all need to be more aware of the pressures children may be facing and the sometimes resultant mental health conditions. 

Raising awareness about mental health is an important thing...these videos found on YouTube show that news broadcasters, charities, organisations and individuals are all trying to do their bit by publicly releasing their messages through a digital technology medium.

References

CBS (2007).  Notebook: Kids' mental health [Video clip].  Retrieved March 28, 2011 from 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onxBmF0ODh0

Emrephalanx (2009).  Mental health hotline [Video clip].  Retrieved March 28, 2011 from

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXx-n6T7tZg

Karch, M. (n.d.). YouTube explained - overview of the google video sharing tool.  Retrieved May 6th, 2011 from http://google.about.com/od/moreaboutgoogleaps/p/youtubeprofile/htm.

O'Neill, M. L. (2006).  Mental health video [Video clip].  Retrieved March 28, 2011 from 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H-joP-QXXo.

Ttcnow (2009).  Comic relief support time to change film on red nose day 2009 [Video clip].  Great Britain: Author.  Retrieved March 28, 2011 from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo2ie5eJ0ag

World Health Organisation (2009).  WHO: Mental health [Video clip].  Geneva: Author.  Retrieved March 28, 2011 from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8iRjEOH41c.